"Computer Composer" is music software for the Commodore Amiga, created in 1986 by Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen of LKP Ltd.

This is a colorful early demo of Kirschen's process to generate new music by recombining patterns extracted from existing music.

Unlike the later Magic Harp, which featured large (silent) animated "artificial personalities," this demo uses speech synthesis to announce when it is "writing an original composition." It was probably intended to be shown by Kirschen at technology and music trade shows in summer 1986. This software was created on an Amiga 1000.

This demo allows the user to generate or play music in four styles: "Maharishi Madness," "Saxman Rock," "Peruvian Indian," and "Bugle Boy Blues."

More details on this game can be found here.

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